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Nowadays, analysis methods based on big data have been widely used in malicious software detection. Since Android has become the dominator of smartphone operating system market, the number of Android malicious applications are increasing rapidly as well, which attracts attention of malware attackers and researchers alike. Due to the endless evolution of the malware, it is critical to apply the analysis methods based on machine learning to detect malwares and stop them from leakaging our privacy information. In this paper, we propose a novel Android malware detection method based on binary texture feature recognition by Local Binary Pattern and Principal Component Analysis, which can visualize malware and detect malware accurately. Also, our method analyzes malware binary directly without any decompiler, sandbox or virtual machines, which avoid time and resource consumption caused by decompiler or monitor in this process. Experimentation on 5127 benigns and 5560 malwares shows that we obtain a detection accuracy of 90%.
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This work is partially supported by the National Science foundation of China under Grant No. 61472131, No. 61300218 and No. 61472132. The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province under Grant No. 2017JJ2292 and Outstanding Youth Research Project of Provincial Education Department of Hunan under Grant No. 17B030. Science and Technology Key Projects of Hunan Province (2015TP1004, 2015SK2087, 2015JC1001, 2016JC2012).
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Wu, Q., Qin, Z., Zhang, J., Yin, H., Yang, G., Hu, K. (2017). Android Malware Detection Using Local Binary Pattern and Principal Component Analysis. In: Zou, B., Li, M., Wang, H., Song, X., Xie, W., Lu, Z. (eds) Data Science. ICPCSEE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 727. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6385-5_23
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